LessonsComprehensive Review and Application: Bayān, Badīʿ and the Final Rhetorical ArtsQuiz

Tablīgh presents an extreme that remains both logically and customarily possible. Ighrāq reaches an extreme logically conceivable but beyond customary occurrence, while ghuluww asserts an extreme judged logically impossible. The question of literary acceptability is a further and distinct issue.

DegreeLogical possibilityCustomary occurrence
TablīghPossiblePossible
IghrāqPossibleBeyond ordinary custom
GhuluwwImpossibleImpossible

Context, evidence and imaginative effect still matter in deciding whether a particular exaggeration is rhetorically successful.

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Hyperbole tested by logical and customary possibility

Comprehensive Review and Application: Bayān, Badīʿ and the Final Rhetorical Arts

Tablīgh presents an extreme that remains both logically and customarily possible. Ighrāq reaches an extreme logically conceivable but beyond customary occurrence, while ghuluww asserts an extreme judged logically impossible. The question of literary acceptability is a further and distinct issue.

DegreeLogical possibilityCustomary occurrence
TablīghPossiblePossible
IghrāqPossibleBeyond ordinary custom
GhuluwwImpossibleImpossible

Context, evidence and imaginative effect still matter in deciding whether a particular exaggeration is rhetorically successful.